1932: Playing with the Japanese Communist Party with a doll

Therefore, they advanced at a rapid pace, crushing the enemy with overwhelming force. No one dared to resist, and they were so busy that they had no time to capture prisoners!

It was not until they approached Quanzhou that Chiang Kai-shek's vanguard engaged in a small fierce battle with Qu Shounian's troops, resulting in several hundred casualties.

But when the overall battle situation was completely over, the resistance of a mere Qu Shounian was of no use at all, and he was soon beaten and had to flee.

At this time, Chiang Kai-shek, Cai Ying-che and others who had fled south had concentrated their remaining troops near Quanzhou City. It seemed that they were ready to fight a decisive battle with Chiang Kai-shek's army, but fierce quarrels were still taking place within the army.

Commander-in-Chief Jiang Guangnai had originally opposed launching the "Fujian Incident" and establishing a "People's Revolutionary Government." He believed that the situation had already deteriorated so much that there was no need to continue fighting, which would only cost the lives of soldiers. It would be better for everyone to resign and preserve vitality.

Although Deputy Commander-in-Chief Cai Tingkai was also dejected, he opposed surrendering to Chiang Kai-shek, believing that he could use the remaining troops to fight a good fight with Chiang's army and exchange his position for the "19th Route Army's march north to fight against Japan";

Chief of the General Staff Huang Qiang advocated immediately seeking assistance from the Guangdong Army and incorporating the entire army into the "Guangzhou National Revolutionary Government" to defend the northern gate of Guangdong and jointly resist Chiang Kai-shek.

The 60th Division Commander Shen Guanghan proposed retreating the entire army into Guangdong, taking the battle there and forcing the Guangdong Army to fight alongside them. However, the 78th Division Commander Qu Shounian thought this was too unethical...

In short, there was a huge quarrel inside, everyone had their own opinions, and no one could convince anyone else.

As for the real leader, Chen Mingshu, he had completely lost his mind at this time. He sat there blankly, not even participating in the discussion about the future, and no one paid any attention to him.

Production People's Party?

Haha, forget about the "New Party" now, they've almost lost all their territory!

Chen Mingshu was in great pain.

He racked his brains but couldn't figure out how he failed and why he failed so quickly.

Given his reputation, his foundation in the 19th Route Army, the fighting power of his men, and Fujian's easily defendable and difficult-to-attack terrain, it's impossible for him to be defeated like this!

What went wrong?

Why did his generals rebel one after another?

Why didn't they resist?

Could it be that Chiang Kai-shek gave them another large sum of money?

Not really?

Now that things are like this, where does that person still have so much money?

Li Jishen, who also held a lot of power, surprisingly showed no signs of worry at this moment. Instead, he was quietly chatting with a man beside him who looked mature, dressed simply, and had a calm expression. Compared with the people around him, he seemed a little out of place.

"Comrade Zhang, you are truly a master of foresight!

"Hehehe."

After hearing Li Jishen's slightly teasing words, the 41-year-old Zhang Yun逸 could only smile bitterly.

Zhang Yun逸, male, from Wenchang, Hainan, deputy chief of staff of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, future general of the People's Liberation Army and secretary of the Guangxi Provincial Party Committee and chairman of the government.

At this time, he served as the plenipotentiary representative sent by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to the 19th Route Army, responsible for the liaison between the Communist Party of China and the 19th Route Army and helping the other side to transform.

Given that Chen Mingshu and others were quite wary and hostile towards the Communist Party of China (worried that Zhang Yun逸 would launch a "Second Ningdu Uprising" in the 19th Route Army), it is easy to imagine how difficult it was for him to carry out his work.

After arriving in Fujian, his effective suggestions such as "vigorously developing grassroots organizations, actively mobilizing the masses, establishing a political commissar system, organizing heart-to-heart talks, conducting internal investigations in the army, and building defensive fortifications" were all ignored.

As he said in his report to the Party Central Committee:

"The 19th Route Army was not a revolutionary army. They were just a faction within the Kuomintang. They were not really against Chiang Kai-shek, but were just motivated by the political demands of the top leaders and their fear of being used as a tool by Chiang Kai-shek.

"They were weak and vacillating, and only knew how to shout slogans of democracy and anti-Chiang. They did not know how to mobilize and organize the masses of the people and the soldiers. They even threw aside the banner of anti-Japanese resistance. Failure was inevitable sooner or later."

Even so, because he had been there for too short a time and did not know the specific situation well enough, Zhang Yun逸 had never expected that the 19th Route Army would be defeated so quickly.

In less than a week, it was transported all the way from northern Fujian to southern Fujian.

The Chiang Kai-shek army was not "suppressing the rebellion" at all, it was simply an armed forced march!

How to pull the hips into this shape...

Also, from the moment he arrived in Fujian, he discovered that Li Jishen was very different from other senior leaders of Fujian and the 19th Route Army.

He was clearly the leader of the 19th Route Army and was clearly involved in the "Fujian Incident", but he always maintained an attitude of "staying out of it" and was not as wary of Zhang Yun逸, the representative of the Communist Party of China, as others.

Among all the people in Fujian, Li Jishen and Zhang Yun逸 communicated the most, and the topics they discussed were the most sensitive and in-depth.

Could it be that this person wants to join the Communist Party?

Although he was muttering in his heart, Zhang Yunyi certainly would not say these words to Luan

"Mr. Ren Chao, although the situation is extremely bad, it is not hopeless. We do have a proposal, but it depends on whether the 19th Route Army is willing to accept it.

"Oh, you say?

"The 19th Route Army can concentrate its forces near Quanzhou to engage in a major battle with Chiang Kai-shek's army, weakening their morale. Then, the entire army can take the opportunity to retreat to the Zhangzhou-Hua'an-Longyan line and resist step by step. That is within our control, and Chiang Kai-shek's army should not force its way in."

The core of this advice is quite straightforward:

The 19th Route Army should stop struggling. First, preserve your manpower and retreat to the Central Soviet Area. The Red Army will protect you.

"Hehehe... I have no objection to this, but..." Li Jishen smiled faintly and cast his eyes on the people who were still arguing:

"They just..."

Zhao Na

Zhang Yun逸 could only sigh, feeling disheartened, and even reported to the Party Central Committee and decided to pack up and go home.

Difficult, too difficult.

I'm afraid that this group of people would rather be completely absorbed into the Guangdong Army or Chiang Kai-shek's Army than accept the "transformation and reorganization" of the Red Army.

why?

The issue of the nature and class nature of the troops.

The core force of the entire 19th Route is actually a group of "Hakka" people who are related to each other, or to put it more clearly, they are actually "private" people with clan organizations as the core.

With such an army and such a general, if you ask him to lead his troops to "loyalty" to a certain faction, there will definitely be no problem as long as the conditions are met;

But if you let it be directly reorganized into the Red Army like the troops in the "Ningdu Uprising", it will directly hit the pain points of almost all officers from top to bottom, and will definitely be met with fierce opposition.

No wonder the Central Committee did not allow the Red Army to directly intervene in the Fujian Incident, and even refused to publicly recognize the "Fujian People's Revolutionary Government." This is indeed a big quagmire.

Some people always assume that if the CPC Central Committee had agreed with Li Desheng's opinion at the time and joined forces with the 19th Route Army, something would have been possible. In fact, the possibility of success is still so low that it can be ignored. This is the reason.

Li Desheng saw through this very early on, but the Red Army in history had no other choice but to unite with the 19th Route Army to have a glimmer of hope, and could only choose to unite rather than fight a positional war with Chiang Kai-shek's army;

But the Red Army now had the confidence to defeat Chiang Kai-shek head-on even if he launched another massive encirclement and suppression campaign. Why would they risk damaging their own political credibility by joining forces with the 19th Route Army?

If they won, all the benefits would go to Chen Mingshu, the 19th Route Army, and Fujian.

If I lose...

Judging from the current results, it’s fortunate that we didn’t participate in the war.

However, even if the Red Army did not participate in the war, Chiang Kai-shek's army's bottom line would probably be to occupy Quanzhou, because if they continued to fight south, they would definitely clash with the Communist Party of China and the Shandong Army.

Suppress the Communists?

Suppress Guangdong?

The Guangdong Army itself is not easy to deal with, and the current Communist Party is not as easy to suppress as it was in the past two years.

If you are not afraid of triggering a full-scale war and then being defeated, then let's fight it out with real weapons.

However, we cannot allow Quanzhou to be captured by Chiang Kai-shek's army, nor can we allow the 19th Route Army to be completely annexed by Chiang Kai-shek. This is also not in line with the plans of the Party Central Committee and the interests of the Communist Party of China.

After all, the current Party Central Committee is not the Party Central Committee controlled by the "left-leaning closed-doorism" during the Wang Ming era, and it does not have such high "purity requirements" for other forces.

United Front!

The 19th Route Army was naturally backward and even reactionary in some aspects, but at the same time, the fact that they raised the banner of "anti-Chiang and anti-Japanese" and fought against the Japanese army in Shanghai was itself revolutionary and worth saving.

(Wang Ming's definition: The 19th Route Army was a reactionary army that the CCP must eliminate. Collaboration with it was counter-revolutionary and a betrayal of communism.)

However, is there any other way to make the 19th Route Army accept and stabilize the current situation under the premise that the Red Army does not participate in the war?

It's difficult...

In this desperate and chaotic atmosphere, with everyone having their own thoughts, a messenger rushed in in a panic:

"Report! People from the Northeast have appeared!

?

What did you say???

"Oh, sea, oh, sea, it's where I grew up."

A man stood at the bow, with his arms outstretched, shouting a song that no one had ever heard before. The sailors passing by were not surprised by this, and some even hummed along.

It sounds very nice, and perfectly expresses the longing for hometown and mother. Your Highness is really talented.

"The sea breeze blows and the waves surge, oh sea, I am your mother!

Everyone left silently.

Your Highness is going crazy again

“Pah pah pah pah pah…”

Accompanied by a round of applause, a tall and strong man appeared on the bow deck and complimented:

"Your Highness has a great song, a great singing voice, and a great voice!"

"Do you understand such complicated Chinese and are you just trying to flatter me?

Someone rolled their eyes, took the lemonade offered by the black and white maid to moisten their throat, and gave a thumbs-up to the shadowy crowd on the distant land.

"Kudo, I'll give you a task. Think of a way to fuck him.

"Your Highness, when you're joking, could you please be more frivolous so that I and the others can tell?"

That’s right, the people having the conversation were a certain Northeastern King and a certain Big Buddha Captain.

After the troubles in Nanjing and Shanghai ended, Fujiwara Kanezane did not return to the Northeast immediately. Instead, he took advantage of the night to board the flagship of the Northeast Navy - an illegal building on the sea, which had been renamed "Republic" although the purchase and sale procedures had not been completed.

By the way, there was a suggestion to change the name of "Fuso" to "Yahata" or "Kanezane", but Fujiwara no Kanezane retorted with one sentence:

"You want to name such an ugly ship after me?

Back to the point.

After all, Fujiwara no Kanezane was a man who kept his promises. Chairman Chiang Kai-shek sent He Yingqin to ask him to help "suppress the Fujian rebels" and paid him money, so he had to bring a fleet with him no matter what.

However, everyone had agreed beforehand that this was a "training march," not a "battle." So, the specific purpose of the fleet coming here was not up to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

"Tsk tsk tsk... You still don't have any sense of humor.

Fujiwara Kanezane shook his head and stopped teasing his subordinates. Instead, he raised his telescope and observed for a while. His face turned serious and he ordered:

"It's almost time, Kudo, command all troops! Begin the exercise!"

"yes!"

Thus, a long-planned "exercise" was launched in Quanzhou, Fujian, near the sea off the battlefield where Chiang Kai-shek's army and the 19th Route Army were confronting each other.

Whether it was Chiang Kai-shek's army or the 19th Route Army, many people saw or even heard of this "elite navy" in the Northeast for the first time, and saw the warships for the first time, especially the tall flagship, which was intimidating.

They didn't think the "Republic" was ugly, they just thought the bigger the ship, the scarier it was, especially when the rumbling artillery fire exploded "not far" from them.

The Republic's navy concentrated in the waters near Meizhou Island. Dozens of warships dropped countless shells on Meizhou Bay and Quanzhou Bay, splashing columns of water into the sky.

Don't ask, it's just an exercise.

what?

Invasion of territorial waters?

Your government actually has this kind of thing?

Well, even if you have one, can your few "gunboats", whether it is the "Yongsui", "Minquan", "Minsheng" or "Yixian", hurt the Republic Navy at all?

Don't even mention that we're just here for an exercise and have no intention of hurting anyone. Even if we really came to attack Fujian, even if we really bombarded Quanzhou, do you think the Nationalist government would dare to send anyone out to fart?

Obviously, not only Fujiwara no Kanezane thought so, but also Chiang Kai-shek's army and the 19th Route Army, which were directly facing the threat of artillery fire, thought so.

No one thought that the weapons in their hands could fight against the enemy's huge ships and cannons, and no one thought that Chairman Chiang had the strength and courage to go to war with such an army.

As a result, the momentum of Chiang Kai-shek's army's crazy offensive came to an abrupt halt as if someone had pressed the pause button, and their enemy's morale, which was on the verge of collapse, was unexpectedly stabilized.

There's no way, I can't run away!

No matter how you look at it, it's impossible for two legs to outrun a ship, not to mention that it can fire cannons.

In this case, it is better to stay put and see what this third-party force that suddenly appears and forcefully inserts itself into the battle is trying to do.